Through your life you come across a number of risks. Each risk you are faced with comes with certain choices and circumstances. Some risks are greater than others and it's up to you to decide weather or not the risk is worth taking. One particular risk that stands out most in my mind is the time when I went skydiving with all my friends. This event has greatly changed the way I view life. Ever since I first got introduced to skydiving I have had a fascination with the sky and would always dream of the day when I could go skydiving myself. One night my friends and I were hanging out and watching a movie. In the movie we saw a bunch of people skydiving and my friend Mike as a joke said that we should go too. At that moment no one was really serious about it but I knew in my mind that I wanted it. I started to get my friends into it by basically beating it into their heads. That night we looked up all the information we needed and decided to go two weeks later, on a Saturday. We figured that the risk of going skydiving is worth the thrill and no matter what happens you only live once so why waste it. At that point we found a reputable place in New Jersey were we scheduled our skydiving adventure. This consisted of a three hour lesson, a training video, and a one on one personal lesson with a licensed instructor. Waiting for the day that we were going to jump was the longest two weeks of my life. Through those upcoming days we would talk about the day when were going to jump, the anticipation was building and now the risks seemed to be greater then I expected. I soon realized that I should stop worrying and just relax, because I knew that there was no turning back. I couldn't back down and tell my friends that I am not going. My friends just wouldn't except that answer from me, so I knew I had no choice.

When the faithfull day came I had no worries, I was ready to jump and sore in the sky like a bird. On that day all of us got...

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People wonder and try to guess what made me the way I am today. I’ve been confronted by elderly strangers, being asked the same question almost every time. Questions like: “Why are you so nice?”, “Why are you so different from others?”, and “Why is the way you dress unique?” I give them all the same answers, I tell them I am who I am today because of my past experience. I never go into details about telling people what my past experience was that made me who I am today, but at the inner most part of my mind I knew that it was because of my past experience in boarding school and the influence my mom had on me at that time of my life that made me who I am today.
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Reflective Learning Journal of My Job as Nespresso Promoter (Part-time)
Being a Nespresso Promoter is not easy, especially when you have another part-time job at the same time. But, for sure, the job as a promoter has helped me a lot in so many ways that I did not see it as a challenge, but a footstep to become a more polished person in the workplace.
I was employed by an event management company called Event Elite Production and Promotion Limited from March 2014 onwards. From the day I was hired, I was allocated to work for Nespresso, one of its clients, as a part-time promoter. This is how my regular duty goes: I will be informed of the location of my promotional booth a week in advanced. On the day of work, I need to stand in the booth and demonstrate how our coffee machines work and how the capsules work. I also have to answer various questions from my customers. If I successfully sold a coffee machine, commission will be issued later. Part-time promoters do not have a fixed point of sales. We have to switch to another point from time to time and these points usually located in various electronic appliances supply stores like Broadway, Fortress and Chung Yuen or department stores like Aeon, Citysuper and Yata etc. Sometimes, we have to help the company in some promotional events or roadshows as demonstrators for the coffee machines in places like Sogo.
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